London Campaign Against Police and State Violence is a group of voluntary campaigners working to make the Metropolitan Police accountable to local communities for abuses of power; and bring an end to its culture of brutality and racial profiling including the racist use of Stop & Search.

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We will be ending the year with two final events to mark the end of 2015:

CANDYMAN AT FRUITVALE FILM CLUB

Sunday 27th December, 3pm at The Field, 385 New Cross Road, London SE14 5HD
Fruitvale Film Club presents CandyMan – made in 1992, it is about the ghost of a lynched Black man who takes revenge on anyone who calls him by his name. Join us in (re)discovering the film in a friendly atmosphere.

Noise demos outside of prisons are a continuing tradition across the world. A way of expressing solidarity for people imprisoned during the New Year, remembering those held captive by the state. A noise demo breaks the isolation and alienation of the cells our enemies create, but it does not have to stop at that. It is time to imagine a world without incarceration, without detention, without racism and injustice.

The proportion of people of African-Caribbean and African descent incarcerated here is almost seven times greater to their share of the population. In the United States, the proportion of black prisoners to population is about four times greater.

Organised by Lesbian and Gays Support the Migrants.
Migrants in the UK and at our borders are facing increasing attacks by the government and by the media. The government will soon be passing an Immigration Bill that will prevent migrants from accessing housing and criminalise migrant workers.

LCAPSV hosts a monthly free film screening at “The Field” in New Cross, to provide a space where it is possible to enjoy an interesting movie but also to share and discuss experiences of violence, objectification, oppression and harassment. This could include intrusions such as constant stop and search, or physical violence, or the everyday stress of being made to feel you somehow have to account for yourself and your experiences of racism.

We are putting on a monthly free film screening at “The Field” in New Cross, to provide a space where it is possible to share and discuss experiences of police and state brutality. This could include mental harassment through – for example – constant stop and search, or physical violence.

Anyone and everyone is welcome at this event.

This month, to kick off, we will be showing Fruitvale Station which depicts in moving and shocking detail, the last day on the planet of Oscar Grant (played by Wire star Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old son, friend, partner and father of one little girl, who was shot dead, unarmed, by subway police at Fruitvale Station in Oakland, California in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009.

F.F.C. takes place at “The Field” in New Cross on the last Sunday of every month at 3pm and will last a few hours.